Doc
Can you explain to everyone about the correction factor numbers and what they mean?
CF: STD Smoothing: 5, or 3 or
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Correction Factors are atmospheric conditions that horsepower is rated at. We use SAE in America which stands for Society of Automotive Engineers and they say the perfect atmospheric conditions are 29.23'' mercury, dry air (no humidity), and 77 degrees. At this correction factor we can run a bike in Denver and get the same HP if we ran that bike in Miami or any where in the world for that matter.....the computer rates the air at the SAE correction no matter if it is raining, high humidity, or 100 degrees in the dyno room. STD correction factor says the perfect atmospheric conditions are 29.73, dry air, and 60 degrees, so as you can see the STD correction rates HP at a cooler temp, closer to sea level than the SAE correction. The cooler air and denser air will produce more HP so STD usually is 4% higher numbers than SAE correction factor. There are several correction factors all over the world.....Germany has their own CF called DIN, Japan has their own, Europe has their own and so on and so on. The USA seems to use the SAE and the STD so that's why I want to know what the correction factor is when people say what there numbers are....if STD is 4% higher then a 100 hp motor will put out 104 hp by a click of the mouse. The smoothing smooths out the graph....the scales is from 1 to 5 and 5 being the smoothest. If you have a graph with the tq and hp line set at smoothing 1 the graph will get real zagged and the peaks of the zags will make hp and tq much higher than it would be if the smoothing on #5. These things make a BIG difference in the hp/tq read outs with just fudging with a few things in the winPEP 7 software and if you didn't know to look for these things you can be very deceived.
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